Regional Briefing

A resurfacing project on Interstate 84 in Bethel, Brookfield and Newtown is scheduled to begin this evening and last until Friday morning.

The $180,000 maintenance project will take place between exits 8 and 11. It will start on the eastbound side of the interstate between exits 8 and 9. The next phase will be westbound I-84 between the Rochambeau Bridge and Exit 11. The last phase will be a half-mile section of westbound I-84 near Exit 9.

Work is scheduled for between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. through Thursday night. Weather or other conditions could delay the work, but if all goes well it will be finished by Friday morning, state Transportation Commissioner
Stephen E. Korta
said in a news release.

REDDING

Huntington State Park closed until Nov. 6

A plan to open Huntington State Park for fall foliage watchers failed because people didn't honor the state's request that they stay away from construction areas.

Repairs to the park's dams have been ongoing since July and are expected to be finished by December.

The park has been closed weekdays since July 1 to allow work on repairing the five dams.

The state
Department of Environmental Protection
hoped to open the park on weekends during fall foliage season, but because visitors entered work zones and used closed trails, the entire state park will be closed through the end of October.

Anyone found in the park during the weekends will be ticketed, according to the state. Limited areas of the park will be open starting Nov. 6.

bridgeport

Police arrest suspect

in business robberies

Residents were evacuated from a Bridgeport neighborhood Saturday as more than a dozen police arrested a suspect accused of numerous robberies at knifepoint.

James Haggerty
, a suspect who was considered armed and dangerous, was arrested without incident.

"He looked a little shocked to see all the officers," Bridgeport Police Capt.
Brian McCarthy
said. "But he only saw a fraction of what we had."

Haggerty, 46, is accused of robbing seven businesses in Milford, Monroe, Seymour, Shelton and Stratford last month and in October.

Bridgeport police are investigating whether Haggerty is responsible for two similar robberies.

Haggerty is being held without bail in the Shelton jail. He is scheduled to be arraigned today at